I have to share with you something that I read on a website when I typed. "My dog Died" into the google browser.


We learn from our animals--

Animals are not afraid to die, they show us that the end of life can be faced without fear.They teach us to accept death as an opening for love and wonder.


My dog, Foxy Jean, tried so hard to teach me this while she was dying. i just did not want her to die. But,

She died, in December, 2005. When we allowed her to go outside, just hours before she passed away, she swiftly trotted to the pine trees around our yard, secluding herself underneath the boughs, next to the trunk.

My son had to coax her out ,and he brought her back inside. Afterward, she asked to go outside again, and went underneath another pine tree in the back yard.

I had to get a flash light and get down on my hands and knees with it just to see her, and make her come back into the house. Foxy Jean was not at all afraid to die!!!! I took my snowsuit off after placing her onto the dining room floor, then, picked her back up and held her on my lap, just a half hour before she actually passed away. She was holding onto life, just for ME!!! Stupid me!!!

Foxy Jean taught me about death on that cold December evening. It is not an end, it is a new beginning, and one that we don't understand.

We grieve the loss of our parents, as well as Aunts, Uncles, friends, and the likeness of our past, but Animals , though they cannot talk, teach us not to fear death.

And, not to look back upon them with pity. I Thank God for what Foxy Jean taught me. I hope my words help you to heal.